Get list of organizations on GitHub

Question

Is there a workaround to get the list of organizations on GitHub?

For example: https://github.com/showcases/open-source-organizations

How can we do that via the GitHub API or GitHub search?

Quartus

Answer 1

You can get a list of all accounts:

https://developer.github.com/v3/users/#get-all-users

The type parameter will tell you if it's a user or organization.

An alternative is to use the search API:

https://developer.github.com/v3/search/#search-users

You can specify type:org to get organizations only:

https://api.github.com/search/users?q=type:org

Teenager

how can i get objective C project of all organizations? – Quartus

@ZuzooVn I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Could you clarify your question please? – Teenager

I want to get the list of organizations which have project with Objective C language. – Quartus

That's not possible currently. A workaround you could use is to get a list of all projects marked as Objective-C (using the Search API), and then get the owner of each project. If the owner is an organization (and not a personal account), you'd keep it in the list of organizations. – Teenager

Answer 2

On June 17, 2015 GitHub added a new API to get organizations:

curl https://api.github.com/organizations

[
  {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 9919,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
   "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
   "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
   "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
   "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
   "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9919?v=3",
    "description": "GitHub, the company."
  },
  ...
]

Additional information can be found on the following link:

List all organizations

Lists all organizations, in the order that they were created on GitHub.

Note: Pagination is powered exclusively by the since parameter. Use the Link header to get the URL for the next page of organizations.

Parameters

• Name: since
• Type: string
• Description: The integer ID of the last Organization that you've seen.

Response

Status: 200 OK
Link: <https://api.github.com/organizations?since=135>; rel="next"
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
----------------------------------------------------------------------
[
  {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization"
  }
]

Goldshlag

Answer 3

Note that it's also possible to use Github GraphQL v4 to request organization using :

{
  search(query: "type:org", type: USER, first: 100) {
    userCount
    nodes {
      ... on Organization {
        name
        createdAt
        description
      }
    }
  }
}

Try it in the explorer

Witenagemot

Answer 4

I ran into similar problems with you and maybe I get an answer from github API doc now.

Detail Doc in this: https://developer.github.com/v3/search/#search-users

There are several parameters that can be used.

1. q : (string). The search terms.
2. sort : (string). The sort field. Can be followers, repositories, or joined. Default: results are sorted by best match.
3. order : (string). The sort order if sort parameter is provided. One of asc or desc. Default: desc

The q search term can also contain any combination of the supported user search qualifiers as described by the in-browser user search documentation and search syntax documentation:

• type With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just personal accounts (user) or just organization accounts (org).
• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the username (login), public email (email), full name (fullname), or any combination of these.
• repos Filters users based on the number of repositories they have.
• location Filter users by the location indicated in their profile.
• language Search for users that have repositories that match a certain language.
• created Filter users based on when they joined.
• followers Filter users based on the number of followers they have.

For your problem, you can try this example and change it.

For example:

https://api.github.com/search/users?q=language:objective-c+type:org&page=1

Request GET and return format data (json). Page parameter can be changed to get more pages of results (but no more than 1000, according current API doc).

Blackboard

Answer 5

You can check this https://medium.com/@harshitsinghai77/demystifying-github-api-to-fetch-the-top-3-repositories-by-stars-using-node-js-aef8818551cb to have a clear understanding.

Chromate

Answer 6

Use this request https://api.github.com/graphql :

query {
  enterprise(slug: "ENTERPRISE_SLUG") {
    organizations(first: 100) {
      nodes {
        name
        url
      }
    }
  }
}

Bushey